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Yesterday evening we tried to go to the Elements Mall. The parkade was full and there was no provision for a line up. They basically blocked the entrance entirely and didn’t allow any car in despite having cars leaving. It was around 6pm. So we when for dinner else where and headed back at at around 7:15pm but to no avail.
This morning, we headed there again. We were able to get in. It was around 11am, hardly anyone there. The restaurant we wanted to go was not opened until noon, so we shopped around a bit while waiting for it to open. Shops were empty and nothing worth buying except for a couple of magazines and a novel to kill some time. At 12am we went in.
Inaniwa Udon
asimasen~!
Just like all other Japanese restaurants here in HK, except for the boss of ippei-an of course, none of them could pronounce いらっしゃいませ – irasshaimase properly. It’s like Stephen Chow’s “ehehehah~笨!” Absolutely no courtesy. Utterly destroy the meaning of the word. Might as well shut the F up is my impression always.
We had ordered 2 appetizers and 3 main courses. All came quickly except for my mushroom udon. Well, it doesn’t matter how good the food is, and it was alright, having one main course so late that everything else was done with is simply unacceptable.
When we were ready to leave, it took over 30 min just to get the receipts verified for free parking. The requirements are, you’d need a total of $180 shopping receipts, in that, in order to be qualified for points, you’d need to make purchases of which where it is less than $200 with cash, more than $200 with credit cards. Since there is no way you can make $200 for cash purchase, you can have them added up and averaged to the closest $200. There must be 2 purchases on the same day, one for restaurant one for shopping… add a couple drops of blood from your mother-in-law, 1 garlic, 2 table spoons of your sons saliva….. what, are we on MacBeth, or somethin’?!
As it turned out, points are collected for redemption of other coupons, not for free parking.
So we were supposed to have 3 points collected but the computer would not print out the 3 points on the membership card despite having it registered in their logs and records. Well, in order to kill time one must waste some time, I suppose.
Dunno y d embedin’ doen’t wer.
Bésame Mucho – Raul Malo’s rendition.
I have always loved this song. I accidentally stumbled upon this Raul Malo’s version (click on the hypertext, as no YouTube embedding code was provided) on YouTube today. I have no idea who Raul Malo is. Even though the quality of the recording itself is poor, it instantly became one of my favorites. I’ll definitely try to find his CD or DVD.
“If these genetic mutants hold the key to our future…”
Who is he?…
And the winner is….
The other day, a friend asked me how long has it been since Johnny Carson died, and he said that he likes Johnny Carson much more than my favorite comedy talk show host David Letterman. I have a lot of respect for Johnny and he is a legend. Others like Jay Leno and Arsenio Hall are good but you get tired of them quickly. Conan O’Brien was… well, let’s forget about Conan.
We don’t get most of these shows aired in Hong Kong except we do get the up-to-date Late Show with David Letterman on ATV World.
Thanks to YouTube, meet The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson. His show opening stand-up gigs are just as great as Jerry Seinfeld’s! Sure, one does need a bit of knowledge on the American entertainment business and culture to fully appreciate his stand-up gigs but with his Scottish twists to the American comedy, Craig is simply sensational.
WhaUSay?!